City: Orange Village
State/Province: Ohio
Country: United States

Adam Fishman, Principal, Fairmount Properties:
“Our goal was to create a central gathering place for the region. Northeastern Ohio is made up of 57 separate small municipalities and many of them, particularly on the East side of Cleveland, don’t have a true downtown. So in our minds, if we could create an environment that really felt like a downtown, where people can live, work, play, and interact together, it would have a different place in the market and a place that allows people to socialize more. Its our view that as people continue to spend more time looking down at their cell phones, they also need to spend more time looking across the way and seeing other people. This is an opportunity, not just to shop, not just to go out to eat, and not just to go out to the movies, but to see and be seen, and to recreate, and to be more connected to humanity.”